just read a comment on a site that said:.
"at the annual general meeting this year at stanley halls it is on tv.jw.org david splane said the pyramid of giza the bible students believed in for calculating time periods were from pagans".
wasted 2 hours watching the am on jw tv.. splane indeed says this, and that br.
Do you mean that the org has officially discussed those wacky old teachings publicly?
Um, they've talked about this publicly for years.
*** jv chap. 14 p. 201 “They Are No Part of the World” ***
For some 35 years, Pastor Russell thought that the Great Pyramid of Gizeh was God’s stone witness, corroborating Biblical time periods. (Isa. 19:19) But Jehovah’s Witnesses have abandoned the idea that an Egyptian pyramid has anything to do with true worship.
i've heard before about the j-dubs saying they are not to have too many things..............it's just "material objects".
not to have tattoos on their skin also.. what about a full blown born in j-dub getting breast implants??
is that allowed??
Where I grew up, this would have been heavily frowned upon in the congregation because it's an act of vanity. Witnesses do not live monastically or ascetically so the number of things they own is not especially important unless they are working long hours to afford them and thus missing meetings and service.
a brother was appointed recently in the cong, he's got a dodgy history, doesn't really have the respect of many in the cong.
it's surprising to me, but i don't really care, good for him.
my wife, on the other hand, is angry!
Don't you think that your wife already sees the problem, if she's upset about it? What more do you need to say?
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/25697590/three-injured-as-car-hits-park-bench/.
an elderly driver crashed into a park bench in mandurah, western australia today where 3 jws were sitting.
they had set up their jw cart and their literature was also strewn across the ground.. one of the jws was seriously injured with head injuries.. what a freak accident this is.. .
"As a group" is the key phrase there. For a JW to believe that God protects individual Witnesses is saying that God will "put up a hedge around us" as Satan accused him of doing with Job. Perhaps many JWs still believe they have guardian angels, but they're not doing a good job keeping up with their own beliefs then.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/25697590/three-injured-as-car-hits-park-bench/.
an elderly driver crashed into a park bench in mandurah, western australia today where 3 jws were sitting.
they had set up their jw cart and their literature was also strewn across the ground.. one of the jws was seriously injured with head injuries.. what a freak accident this is.. .
I grant you that the picture does seem to send that message. It's at odds with what I read in the literature growing up, though.
hello one and all.. the local jws had a booth set up at my university today and something just came over me.
i went to a computer, found a list of failed prophecies, printed and stapled it, and walked over to the middle aged woman and the 10-ish years old girl.
the woman said "if you are interested in anything, take it for free.
It was nice that you tried, but I'm sure the list was thrown out as soon as you turned your back. That's what JWs do with apostate literature, remember?
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/25697590/three-injured-as-car-hits-park-bench/.
an elderly driver crashed into a park bench in mandurah, western australia today where 3 jws were sitting.
they had set up their jw cart and their literature was also strewn across the ground.. one of the jws was seriously injured with head injuries.. what a freak accident this is.. .
I don't even know what any of you are talking about in the first place because Witnesses aren't supposed to believe that they have angelic protection in their everyday life. Did none of you pay attention at the meetings when the subject was discussed and the example of Job's trials was applied?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqzc2m8_mba.
samuel herd saying things i never thought possible from a gb member.. does anyone know the background?
who was this talk directed to?
Yeah, it's good to confirm these things. We had a couple threads about this before, but besides the hearsay that it was Herd and it was from the '70s, I didn't see any real proof. I'm not even sure how one would confirm this, unless someone remembers hearing him give it.
i have been thinking that jws display an organizationally officially promoted form of thinking that makes them psycopaths!.
what i mean is, any person who enjoyed reading and leaning about past gruesome deaths, or who justified such things as being normal or acceptable would be deemed to be dangerous to society...a psychopath.
(by this i am refferring to the content of the bible of course).
I support the suggestion that the organization produces sociopathic behavior in certain areas of life. It's not just the corporate-like environment which can cause this; when Witnesses are made to feel detached from worldly people, it enhances the "not my problem" effect when they see something like a person in distress and in need of help.
judges chapter 15:.
14 when he came to lehi, the philistines shouted triumphantly at meeting him.
then jehovahs spirit empowered him,+ and the ropes on his arms became like linen threads that were scorched with fire, and his fetters melted off his hands.+ 15 he now found a fresh jawbone of a male donkey; he reached out and grabbed it and struck down 1,000 men with it.+ 16 then samson said: with the jawbone of a donkeyone heap, two heaps!
I'll have to go back and read the account. From memory, Samson did not consciously agree, choose, decide to have his hair cut.
Yes, but the "moral" was the fact that he had told Delilah about the secret of his strength in the first place. His downfall was allowing himself to be seduced. Obviously the guy was pretty dumb since Delilah had already betrayed him, what, twice?
